The plant is from the cinnamon family and the leaves look identical to cinnamon leaves. When steamed the leaves releases a very unique sweet aroma and flavour, this in turn perfumes and flavour the dishes.

There are various methods and styles to make sweet jackfruit breads and most of them are made with vazhana leaves because the sweet aroma compliments well with the fruity jackfruit flavour . This is a simple and quick recipe using jackfruit Jam (chakka varattiyathu) mixed with fresh grated coconut.